Five people arrested over kidney-for-iPad affair in China
posted by Victor H.
Apr 06, 2012, 9:14 AM
Last year, we were shocked at the news of a 17-year-old Chinese teenager selling his kidney just to get the iPad 2, and while the price of the second-generation tablet has dropped by now, the value of a kidney has not, and the health of the teen is deteriorating.
At the same time, the Chinese authorities have now arrested and are charging five people over the illegal surgery.
“Defendant He Wei, who was penniless and frustrated over gambling debts, sought to make enormous earnings through illegal kidney trading, according to the agency. He asked Yin Shen to look for donors through online chat rooms and Tang Shimin to lease an operating room from Su Kaizong, the contractor of a local hospital’s urology department, it stated. Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from a provincial hospital in Yunnan province, conducted the kidney transplant.”
One of the arrested, He Wei, gave the boy nearly $3,500, a mere 10% of the overall sum of $35,000 he was paid for that kidney. He was the one that paid all others involved as well.
The terrible idea sprang into the boy’s mind after he learned that it was possible to sell a kidney for money, and unfortunately his blind gadget crave and inexperience resulted in him selling his kidney. He allegedly only told his mother after he started feeling ill, a week or so after the surgery.
It's his Free Market right to sell whatever part of his body he so chooses. If there is a market for it,why not??? It's not the government's place to say anything.
But int urn he did not sell it to donate it to a hostpital he did it under the black market for money HUGE difference of free choice to sell your body parts. Its called black market because the people behind it are not doing it either up to health code standards or not its the same thing if someone says oh hey I can get augmentation or eye surgery for 300 sweet vs going to a licenced professional and paying more money to get it done right. who is to say that these people who placed this kidney into someone who needed it even did a good job. Thats why there are rules.
HE might sell his retina just to have a look at that retina display as he got 2 eyes .
the reason he sell his kidney is because it has 2 right ?
No matter what device he bought , android or ios its a bad idea to sell of your kidney .
Human exploitation is common in China .
BTW if i sell my kidney it would be so that i can start a business or invest in bonds/gold/stocks when i get rich i buy another kidney back not for a stupid tablet
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